Tips

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Wed, 23, Jul 2003, Biju Chacko wrote:

> > Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work for me. Whatever I do, it
> > complains about missing "fortune".
> > 
> > As I agree that "fortune" is needed to get fortune messages :) I
> > hardly understand why forture is required when "tips" is selected, and
> > even why fortune missing prevents xfce4-tips to display tips at all...
> 
> I assume it uses fortune-style .dat file to store the tips and uses
> fortune to display them. This is acceptable reuse of available tools
> IMHO.

It does.

> > Another missing is a way to say "Don"t display at startup" - using a
> > flag file or something in $HOME/.xfce4/
> 
> yes, thats needed.

Since its not part of the core system yet, I didn't implemented that
so far. I thought of using SmRestartStlye for this, once xfsm support
it. That'd be the cleanest way IMHO.

> -- b

Benedikt

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